Une alliance nationale visant à fournir une base factuelle pour l'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que pour la promotion de communautés accueillantes au Canada
La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.
Le Devoir – L’«échec» de la régionalisation de l’immigration
C’est le paradoxe de la régionalisation de l’immigration. « En matière d’immigration, Sherbrooke est souvent citée en exemple pour sa diversité culturelle, son ouverture, son intégration, résume Mohamed Soulami, directeur et fondateur d’Actions interculturelles de développement et d’éducation (AIDE). Cela nous a toujours rendus très fiers, mais on sait aujourd’hui que le modèle en question nourrit surtout… un échec. » Les mots sont durs, tout comme la réalité des chiffres qui viennent avec eux. Dans les dernières années, la ville n’a pas été en mesure, en effet, de retenir les immigrants qu’elle avait invités fortement à s’installer sur son territoire : « 23 % à peine des immigrants restent dans la région », dit M. Soulami, qui a vu se former, puis disparaître, dans les 25 dernières années passées dans la région, la communauté de Haïtiens, de Salvadoriens, de Vietnamiens, dont les membres se sont dispersés depuis dans les rues de Montréal ou dans d’autres grandes villes du continent. « Cela veut dire que 77 % quittent les lieux, faute d’avoir trouvé un travail pour s’intégrer. Et c’est dramatique. »
Brantford Expositor – Laurier Brantford’s LEAF Program Helps Students Hone English Skills
The LEAF program – Laurier English and Academic Foundation – is designed to help equip students get the English language skills needed to pursue a university degree. […] International students are a growing and important part of the Laurier campus, said Valerie Kilgour, who manages LEAF. “We actively recruit international students because they add so much to the life of the campus. It’s a great experience for them and it adds to the experience of the Canadian students to have them on campus and living in the residences,” said Kilgour. On the Brantford campus, there are about 250 international students out of a student body of about 3,000. The LEAF program focuses on academic English as a second language skills, presentation skills, reading, essay writing, communication, and studying. Along with LEAF grads – who may have been in the program for a few months or more than a year – Friday’s ceremony included the school’s first Summer Business English Program, a four-week course designed to provide skills that would help students in an international business context.
The Guardian – Calais Crisis: British Police to be Deployed to Target People-Smuggling
British police will be deployed in Calais to target people-smuggling gangs as part of a new agreement aimed at alleviating the ongoing migrant crisis at the French port. In the first visit to Calais by a UK government minister since the crisis escalated at the start of the summer, home secretary Theresa May arrived in the town on Thursday to confirm a joint declaration with Bernard Cazeneuve, the French minister of the interior. Their deal will see officers from the UK based in a new command and control centre in Calais alongside their French counterparts and Border Force personnel. The work of the police contingent will be led by two senior commanders – one from the UK and one from France. They will report regularly to May and Cazeneuve on the extent of immigration-related criminal activity on both sides of the Channel. Officials said the move was aimed at disrupting organised criminals, who attempt to smuggle migrants illegally into northern France and across the Channel into Britain, by ensuring intelligence and enforcement work is more collaborative.
The Prince George Citizen – Fort St. John Seeking Skilled Immigrant Workers
A new pilot project to bring skilled immigrants to Fort St. John from outside of Canada is moving forward, according to Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman. Ackerman told various businesses about the initiative at the opening of STEP Energy Services new office, where multiple energy service companies were gathered to celebrate. These skilled workers would come from outside the country for skilled positions such as electrician and welders, “and whatever else is needed,” Ackerman said. “We’ve received the nod from the province and the federal government to do this pilot project,” Ackerman said. “It’ll be for Fort St. John… We’re looking forward to modernizing local government, bringing in the skilled workers, and growing our businesses.” Ackerman had few additional details about the skilled worker programs, however. “We’re working on it, and once we’ve got it all ironed out with all the details, it’ll gladly be public.” A spokesperson with the the B.C Ministry of Jobs, Tourism, and Skills Training, said ministry staff has met with the City of Fort St. John and “recognizes the area faces unique workforce challenges.”
Global News – Red Cross Signs Deal to Visit Detainees in Ontario Jails Months After Global News Investigation
Canada’s Red Cross has formally signed a letter of understanding allowing its inspectors to visit immigration detainees being held in Ontario jails, after years of fruitlessly demanding access. Global News reported last fall that Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services was in the process of negotiating an access agreement with the Red Cross, which inspects the conditions of detainees held by Canada’s Border Services officials to ensure their human rights are being met. In multiple annual reports to the Canada Border Services Agency, the Red Cross condemned the practice of putting immigration detainees in provincial jails, and made its case repeatedly to be allowed to inspect the conditions of people held in Ontario. […]More than 200 immigration detainees — refugee claimants, permanent residents and anyone else who doesn’t have Canadian citizenship — are held in Ontario’s notoriously overcrowded jails. Many of them are there indefinitely, without charge. The Canada Border Services Agency has admitted it often funnels the sickest, most vulnerable detainees to these jails because, as demonstrably inadequate as jails’ health services are, they’re better than what CBSA facilities can offer.
Metro News Canada – Conservative Government Vows to “Aggressively Defend” Bill C-24 Against Legal Challenge
The Conservative government will “aggressively defend” Bill C-24, the Strengthening Citizenship Act, against a recent legal challenge filed by two legal advocacy groups, says Kevin Menard, a spokesperson on the Conservative Party federal election campaign team. “Our Conservative government has strengthened the value of Canadian citizenship more than any government in the history of Canada,” Menard says. “In 2014, we also granted citizenship to a record number of people. These achievements were possible because of the measures in C-24, which the overwhelming majority of Canadians support and which was passed despite nonsensical objections from the NDP and Liberals.” Nancy Caron, a spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, told Torstar News Service it would be inappropriate for the ministry to comment on a case before the courts. B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers filed a legal challenge Thursday questioning the constitutionality of a number of provisions in Bill C-24. The two groups argue that those provisions violate a number of sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
